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  •   over 14 years ago

Judging Instructions Clarification

Per the first judging instruction:
"Use of Required DataDoes the application use a combination of creative and relevant data sets, including at least the two mentioned in this challenge from api.dol.gov? (20%)"
I only see one Dataset referred to in the challenge description.  OES.  But the instruction says we need to use at least the "two" mentioned.  Does this mean we just need to use an additional source from api.dol.gov?

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  •   •   over 14 years ago

    The web page http://developer.dol.gov/ lists 9 DOL datasets besides the OES dataset. I think we can also use other datasets like the Consumer Price Index (http://www.bls.gov/CPI/) but that doesn't appear to have an API for us to consume.

    If I'm incorrect on these, hopefully one of the judges can provide an official answer.

  • Manager   •   over 14 years ago

    Dele, that’s an error on our part and will be corrected. This challenge only requires the use of the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) data, though creative use of other publicly available data is encouraged.
    Joseph, we're adding new APIs on a pretty regular basis, if you have specific suggestions that would be useful, please shoot us an email.

  •   •   over 14 years ago

    Thanks for the clarification David.

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